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A strange, small cone-shaped fossil baffled scientists for a very long time. Now that it has found its family, you’ll never guess its closest living relative.

New ichthyosaur fossil discoveries in Arctic Russia indicate that these marine reptiles were adapted to life in icy polar regions.

For more than 100 years dust collected on fossils in Yale’s Peabody Museum marked as unidentified bird specimens. It wasn’t until recently that paleontologists discovered these were no bird fossils at all. They were baby marine reptiles called mosasaurs whose details hinted at an unexpected behavior.